The Elements of Culture
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 culture | total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by members of specific group |
| society | group that shares geographic region, a sense of identity, and culture |
| ethnic group | group that shares a language, customs, and common heritage |
| innovation | taking existing technology and resources and creating something new to meet a need |
| diffusion | spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behaviors |
| cultural hearth | site of innovation from which basic ides, materials, and technology diffuse to many cultures |
| acculturation | society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation (ie jeans vs traditional clothing) |
| dialect | reflects changes in speech patterns due to class, region, or other cultural changed |
| religion | belief in supernatural power or powers that are believed as creators of universe |
| animistic | belief in divine forces in nature |
| birthrate | number of live births per thousand population |
| fertility rate | average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have |
| mortality rate | number of deaths per thousand people |
| infant mortality rate | number of deaths among infants under age one per thousand live births |
| rate of natural increase/population growth rate | subtract mortality rate from birthrate |
| population pyramid | shows sex and age distribution of a population |
| push-pull factors | cause people to leave homeland and migrate to another region |
| population density | average number of people in a square mile |
| carrying capacity | number of organisms piece of land can support |
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